Standard Reference Materials :

Abstract

This document describes the measurement effort that has occurred since the establishment of these SRM's. New data are presented and, based on these, changes in the recommended values are described. The new recommended values are presented in the form of equations, graphs, and tables. The temperature ranges included are: 2 to 1000 K for electrolytic iron, 2 to 3000 K for tungsten, and 2 to 1200 K for stainless steel.

Setting Priorities for Research: New Politics for the Social Sciences

“…The social sciences are more heterogeneous and less consensual than the physical sciences: priorities are unrealistic. Astronomy, which we are trying to emulate, is a single discipline with about 4,000 researchers; organizationally, it is cohesive; research problems in the field are interlinked so that knowledge in one specialty builds upon knowledge in several others; the extension of knowledge depends upon expensive equipment that is available to any researcher on a competitive basis (Boyce, 1984;Lankford, 1984). By comparison, the social sciences are a sprawling collection of a dozen different disciplines with little cohesion or sense of common purpose.…”